[ale] replacing disk sda

[Preston]

On 4/22/2014 12:31 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 04/22/2014 12:42 PM, Preston wrote:
>> correct.  so just change it to which one you need.  if you want to
>> archive several partitions just list them like so:
>>
>>     fsarchiver -A -a -v -j2 -o savefs /<backup
>> directory>/system-backup-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.fsa /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2
>> /dev/sdb1
>>
>> it will put them in the single .fsa archive.
> wow, that is some impressive compression!! my /dev/sdb1 ( / root
> filesystem for fedora) is 13GB, but the fsa backup is 3.6 GB!!
>
> note the man page entry:
> WARNING
>        fsarchiver is still in development, don't use it for critical
> data yet.
> 30 December 2009 
>
> long development cycle..
>

LOL! yeah, but I use Debian so long development cycles have
traditionally been the norm.  :D

be aware that the mbr will need to be backed up.  fsarchiver doesn't do
it as yet (possibly later as was mentioned in a post).

I run my OpenMediaVault off a USB thumb drive and didn't think about the
mbr until the drive quit.  That's when I made the script.

there's no better motivation than drive failure to get you thinking
about how good your backups are...

Preston

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